Silo Examples

On 2016-08-10 Goodreads enabled the ability to sync one's account with their Amazon Kindle account to port over highlights and annotations from Kindle books to the GoodReads platform and share them with one's followers. (GoodReads is a subsidiary of Amazon). The blog post Share Your Kindle Notes and Highlights with Your Friends (Beta) describes the details of the functionality whose UI is pictured below.

Some of the functionality offered includes

Highlights and notes are private by default

A slider on/off button to make individual annotations visible as well as one to make all annotations visible